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Series GSE60089 Query DataSets for GSE60089
Status Public on Aug 06, 2014
Title MNase-chip of maize B73 immature ears, seedling shoots, and seedling roots
Organism Zea mays
Experiment type Genome binding/occupancy profiling by genome tiling array
Summary The eukaryotic nuclear genome is organized into the fundamental units of chromatin, nucleosomes. The positions and biochemical states of nucleosomes on DNA can regulate protein-DNA interactions, and in turn influence DNA-templated events. Despite the increasing number of genome-wide maps of nucleosome position, how global changes in nucleosome position relate to changes in gene expression is poorly understood. Using micrococcal nuclease (MNase) to map nucleosome positions, we show that in the maize genome, nucleosome occupancy signals are remarkably uniform between different tissues, whereas particular genomic regions are highly susceptible to variation. We demonstrate that much of this variation is associated with the degree to which chromatin is digested with MNase. Using high-density DNA microarrays, we exploited this digestion-linked variation to identify protein footprints in the maize genome that are hypersensitive to MNase digestion, a method we term Differential Nuclease-Sensitivity profiling (DNS-chip). Hypersensitive footprints were enriched at the 5’ and 3’ ends of genes, associated with gene-expression levels, and significantly overlapped with conserved noncoding sequences and the binding sites of the homeobox transcription-factor Knotted1, suggesting a functional role in genome regulation. We also found that the tissue-specific regulation of gene expression was linked to tissue-specific hypersensitive footprints in gene promoters. These results demonstrate the value of DNS-chip for revealing biochemical features of nucleosome organization that correlate with gene expression levels and colocalize with functional DNA elements. This approach to chromatin profiling should be broadly applicable to other species and should shed light on how chromatin organization might influence protein-DNA interactions and genome regulation.
 
Overall design Comparison of two to three different concentrations of Mnase in immature ears, seedling shoots, and seedling roots.
 
Contributor(s) Vera DL, Bass HW
Citation(s) 25361955
Submission date Aug 05, 2014
Last update date Nov 05, 2014
Contact name Daniel Vera
E-mail(s) dvera@bio.fsu.edu
Organization name Florida State University
Department Biological Science
Street address 319 Stadium Drive
City Tallahassee
State/province FL
ZIP/Postal code 32306-4295
Country USA
 
Platforms (1)
GPL19041 NimbleGen Maize high-density big-block Array [111208_Zmay_B73_GH_CGH]
Samples (10)
GSM1464849 EARSHOOT_HEAVY_REP1
GSM1464850 EARSHOOT_HEAVY_REP2
GSM1464851 EARSHOOT_LIGHT_REP1
This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries:
GSE60092 MNase-chip of maize B73
Relations
BioProject PRJNA257467

Download family Format
SOFT formatted family file(s) SOFTHelp
MINiML formatted family file(s) MINiMLHelp
Series Matrix File(s) TXTHelp

Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE60089_BigBlockShootRootDNSchip_MATRIX.tsv.gz 59.6 Mb (ftp)(http) TSV
GSE60089_RAW.tar 559.9 Mb (http)(custom) TAR (of PAIR)
Processed data are available on Series record

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